Gesche Joost

Gifts Joost ( born 1974 in Kiel ) is a German design researcher.

Life

Gifts Joost was in 1994 her Abitur at the Gymnasium Kronshagen. She then studied for four semesters of architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig. From 1996 to 2001 she studied design at Köln International School of Design ( KISD ). After graduating, she was a visiting student at the Illinois Institute of Technology ( IIT) in Chicago. From 2001 to 2002 she studied rhetoric at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen until phil from 2003 to 2007 on the broad guidelines of the film rhetoric Gert Ueding Dr.. received his doctorate. She is since 2011 a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin for the field of design research and leads since 2005 the Design Research Lab.

By 2010, Joost was a junior professor at the Technical University of Berlin in cooperation with Telekom Innovation Laboratories (short: T-Labs ) were employed. Her research topics include human - computer interaction, aspects of gender and diversity in communication technology, community building and social sustainability as well as fundamentals of design theory and research.

In the winter semester 2007/2008, she held a visiting professorship at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim on gender & Design. From 2008 to the end of 2010, she held a junior professorship at the TU Berlin for Interaction Design & Media. She heads for the T-Labs, several research projects, such as tactile human computer interaction or women-oriented design of mobile shells. The co-developed by her in the project generation 50 DECT telephone Sinus A 201 2010 received the iF product design award.

2002, gift Joost founding board member and since 2008 she has been president of the German Society for Design Theory and Research eV Likewise, they jury member of the German National Academic Foundation. Since 2013 she is a board member of the TSB Technology Foundation Berlin. Since 2006, Joost is a member of the Advisory Board Peer Steinbrück's personal. In May 2013, the SPD candidate for chancellor summoned her to his campaign team. Joost is regarded as network policy expert of the team, they even used the term " researcher for Human- Machine Interaction ".

Gifts Joost was appointed in March 2014 for Internet ambassador for Germany to advance the digital transformation.

Political positions

Retention

Joost assessed retention ambivalent. In May 2013, it stated: ". A general data retention is critical - it can only exceptions for the most serious crimes in accordance with the rule of law and give " How such an offense- specific approach could look like, they did not explain. The storage of motion profiles rejects Joost.

Privacy Policy

Joost declared in May 2013 that it was necessary to force major Internet companies like Facebook and Google to a more sensitive handling of data. In their view, act the big Internet companies ' privacy protection irresponsible. " It should not be that privacy settings on social networks would change by only about without mitbekämen that users from something. She explained in this context: " This should not be left to the market. The policy must take the obligation to deal cautiously with private information the corporations. "

Works

  • Image - language. The audio- visual rhetoric of the film. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-923-7,
  • Design as rhetoric. Birkhäuser, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7643-8345-9.

Honors and Awards

  • 2006: 100 heads of Tomorrow
  • 2006: The 100 most important young Germans
  • 2008: Junior Science Award of the Governing Mayor of Berlin
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